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Well, thought I'd go ahead and make this public knowledge just in case anyone is wondering? I've been the Acting Director of SOAR for quite a while now, but have recently taken over most, if not all of the responsibilities of SOAR. Yes, SOAR is still around and has been to some degree. Anyway, I'll post more in the SOAR News or the General Discussion area.
Anyway, here it is and where it stands at the moment...
Scott (sf4JC) Frerking - SOAR Director
Karen &/or Don Hamilton - Still in the background to bounce ideas off of and help possibly if need be
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I have good news about XCSoar and Prepar3D......It Works!!! Though I only tested it for a little while. Just use the same settings as in FSX.
Scott
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I have tried a few of Wolfgang's gliders in Prepar3d, and have found some to have less visibility from inside the Virtual Cockpit, meaning, the cockpit reflection image is a bit too heavy or dark (this can be corrected to one's taste by changing the darkness of the alpha channel of the image). Does anyone know if this is the case for other FSX aircraft? Aerosoft's DiscusX Virtual Cockpit doesn't seem to be affected that I have noticed, but I lightned it up a long time ago.
Scott
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Well, I made the jump into Prepar3D seeing as though more of the SOAR community may do the same. At this point in time, I feel a little anxiety towards my decision. It is definitely suited for academic purposes I feel. There is no RealWorld Weather as was in FSX, so a person cannot "learn on the fly", which I'm really not sure why that would not be academic. Though since it's a learning tool, I see how it is used in a sence that a test (or even the material used for a test) has to be the same for everybody, and therefore a person has the ability to retest/restudy the material in an unchanged way.
As far as success stories, I have been able to get FaceTrackNoIR (a free TrackIR type substitute), and have also got XCSoar working in it as well, so that was 2 of my main concerns, but still a little iffy on whether or not the TrackIR workaround is done legally. And on that subject, I have gotten Aerosoft's DiscusX into it, but may later uninstall because if memory serves me correctly, it can ONLY be installed into FSX but will have to check the licensing agreement thing on that. I haven't flown a whole lot yet, but there may be a problem with the new CAIset guages working right or maybe it is the old ones not working right (will have to check which ones I'm using and where and recheck my installation of them).
I haven't made any changes to the cfg file for more FPS (if it's possible), but at the moment I do not feel I need to, so that's definitely a PLUS+ for Prepar3D.
Scott
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jcomm, did you ever get any positive/negative feedback on installing FSX stuff to Prepar3D? I'm just wondering, because I am about in a position to make the jump into it, and would hate to not get my money's worth out of it since it took me this long to get the money. I will search the forum again for success stories and workarounds, but if there is anyone out there listening in that have enjoyed soaring in Prepar3D, please let us know. I have one other forum I can check that may give me some quick answers to, but haven't been there for a while.
Scott
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It's great, but a little overwhelming at first. I was finally able to get the maps working in XCSoar before noon today. Had kindof a busy morning with other things, so not much time was given to using and understanding the software, but I haven't really put any effort into reading the manual for it yet either. You can bet I'll be a little more acquainted with it before the weeks over though.
Scott
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Yep, IT WORKS! That's one of the things I was missing Ivan. I got it working just as I was about to leave the house this morning. I had sort of made a mess of things last night, so I started from the beginning and worked myself through it. One of my tries last night was to change the CNCA0 to COM2, and I think it would have worked but I didn't have the hub2com set up correctly again I think. I tried so much stuff last night, I lost track of where I was at times. GRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! It was so frustrating! When I woke up this morning, I thought I'd have another go at it, and sure enough, I got everything set up correctly just minutes before I needed to get ready to get out of the house.
Now, is this public knowledge, because I found little to no help searching the net for a solution in FS2004. I'm kinda wondering if this is well known, how come I never heard of it. Also, can I make it known by "Pinning" a post in the forums, or is that somehow a no-no. I just cannot believe through all my searching through the years, I never stumbled across this solution. I must have been so close, yet so far from the solution.
But, WOW!!!! I am excited!! So the next question is going to be, will this work in Prepar3D?
Scott
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Okay, so here is where I stand at the moment. I'm actually kindof speechless, to say the least. I've actually got it working with the free version of FSUIPC, so I'm thinking, does Xconn even use the FSUIPC module? Just for kicks, I tried it on FS2004 despite knowing it works only for FSX, and yes, it doesn't work in FS2004. So now all I have to do is save up some money for the FS2004 version of FSUIPC to get XCSoar to work with it. Wow, I sure wish I would have been studying XCSoar to understand all the features/functions and know what all I need to download and such. This is going to be great, it's one more thing to immerse myself into the sim environment.
THANKS guys for pointing this out to me!
Scott
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Thanks Peter, will look into it later tonight.
Scott
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Thanks Ivan! Now I have something to look forward too in the future!
Scott
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Well, I don't know why I get my hopes up all the time?!?! GRRRRRRRRRR. (Hehehe) I keep forgetting that no mater what you want getting the NMEA data to, you HAVE to have the registered version of FSUIPC to get it, unless the program has that capability like FSMovMap for example maybe, or even CCS2004 for that matter. Am I wrong on this?
Scott
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Hey Ivan, if you get it working, can you please come back and tell us? I downloaded the software a while back in hopes of using it on my wife's old Android phone and never could get it working. At the time, I was thinking it was maybe because of me only having the free version of the FSUIPC module. If this procedure works with the free FSUIPC, it would be great to know. I've actually put FSUIPC into my budget for next year already if things go well, but it would sure be nice to play around with XCSoar until then.
Scott
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I may be one step closer to acquiring Prepar3D. My family is having a "garage sale" this weekend and I believe I have my wife talked into letting me keep just 35% of what my stuff goes for. It isn't much, but at least it's something. I would sure love to get that and also a replacement monitor for my computer. Having the viewing area of three monitors at one time is just unbelievable.
Scott
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Hello akdennis, I used to love soaring out of Dillingham, HI (FSX default scenery) in FSX. I had made a few videos years ago and I had to go see them again, it really brought back some great memories. I almost always fly real-world weather, unless I am trying to set up a FunFly for both FS2004 and FSX users to participate in together. One of the last videos I made at Dillingham was in the thread found at http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/29442-dillingham-tow-flight/ . In particular, notice the second video in the thread if you have time, it's of the 7 minute controlled glider tow from that flight. I noticed I had done another set of videos about a year later in the same FSX Soaring Videos section. I love the scenery there, I may just have to set up another flight there when I get back after the holiday.
Scott
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In view of the reasonable academic license, Prepar3D may becone what FSX used to be, at least for those eligible to acquire it.
Hey Peter, and anyone else that may have Prepar3D, I have been staying away from it because of what I thought it states about eligibility, but after reviewing the license a bit, I'm almost sure anyone can aquire it. Can anyone verify this for me.
...Should CumulusX! be Prepar3D?
What do you think?
bests, Peter
I would say YES if you are willing and able to do this. Though, I may not be able to "get funding" for it right of way (my family is on a very, very tight budget). I'm almost sure I can work it in next year though maybe possibly if I'm eligible to have Prepar3D. Maybe I can possibly get it sooner if I drop a BIG hint for my birthday.
Scott
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Good question! As I am about to assume an "Acting Director" position at SOAR, I have had the question asked a couple of times in the last year. You will still be able to receive the certificates, but at the moment there is still not a clear updated proceedure on how one can go about doing this. I have talked about it to a few people, and have for the moment, not got any experience in awarding these certificates. I do have some experience with the program's used to verify a flight, but I think some testing needs to be done on whether or not the other (non-CAIset) IGC's can be verified correctly using the old method of checking the flight. There may be another program that could be of help, but I've not put much time into it yet.
As far as possibly a "dis-interest" in people wanting these certificates, I don't have clear knowledge on the history of the certificates with SOAR to make a good comment. It may have been partly due to the coming of FSX, but it could also have been due to the fact that SOAR hasn't done memberships in a great while.
Scott
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Thanks to whoever took care of that. I got busy and didn't get back to this, I haven't found the other post yet.
Scott
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Is the above post by Abvrukr spam probably? Seems to me there was another post on the SOAR forum in the last month or so that I thought was spam, but didn't report it. I'll look into it tonight if I get a chance.
Scott
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I know what you mean, but at this point in time, it's very hard to keep absolutely still. It has actually gotten a lot better than what it used to be, and there may be another head tracking "engine" in the works for FaceTrackNoIR, so lets keep our fingers crossed. Maybe it will happen in version 1.7, but who knows. I'm still beta testing somewhat over at FaceTrackNoIR, and will keep this thread updated.
Oh, and I forgot about giving any suggestions, maybe your best bet is to go to the FaceTrackNoIR Forum. There really is no true manual for the software yet, and that really hurts the project in my opinion, but you may find a solution in the forums there. Using software like this takes some time to set up as an individual, and a LOT of patience is required, but when you finally get to a somewhat reasonable setting, it really makes you feel good "inside" the cockpit.
Scott
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Thanks guys, looks to be interesting for a glider pilot if I saw correctly and if gliders are included. Did I see rising and falling air near the end of the video?
Scott
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Thanks Shaun, I thought maybe I was installing it wrong. I've only begun to explore it, having not read the whole manual yet, but only the FSUIPC part to make sure. Thanks again for the product!
Scott
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Question to follow. The following is from the original gift (Read Second) thread...
"...A license for FSUIPC is included in the product so you will not have to buy a separate license for FSUIPC.
Please note that FSUIPC is NOT installed with this product..."
So My Question is, Do I need to manually register FSUIPC and FSUIPC4 sometime, somehow? Because they still say they are unregistered, and I'd like to get the most out of this product (Flight Calculator) if at all possible. Or am I already getting the most out of it with unregistered versions of FSUIPC and FSUIPC4? I'm confused.
Scott
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Thank You to Aerosoft, Mathijs Kok, and the whole team for this generous gift! I hope to benefit greatly from it. Happy New Year and may you have many more years of success. Thanks for providing the community with a great selection of products and also providing us with such a great place to meet you and everyone else in the community.
Scott
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Thanks for the heads-up, soaruk!
Scott
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It's been really slow to almost nonexistent. I'm still somewhat hopeful for a turnaround with Microsoft Flight Simulator being released. It's been a while since being a part of it's early Alpha version, so I'm not sure of what it is all capable of yet in the Release version, as I am still in the process of upgrading my main PC and then to acquire Microsoft Flight Simulator (maybe 1 to 3 weeks away). Still hoping for good things in this Release, but not going to hold my breath too long because of thermal activity may not be active/present just yet. That may be the main reason for not seeing any gliders, but without seeing the current build, plus I haven't been totally committed time wise to the development of the simulator since leaving the Alpha behind. Though, I can almost guaranty I'll be putting a lot of my time exploring different aspects of the sim related to SOARing. FSX usage has been almost nonexistent for me since the controller I had been using wasn't working well enough to enjoy much of a flight. Anyway, that's all I know at the moment for now, THANKS for your interest!
Scott